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WorksheetsEuro Test 18,19
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: In this war poem, what is the viewpoint of Owen ( an officer on the Western Front)?
He is praising the consistent positive attitude of the British volunteer soldier
He is expressing the resentment of Irish soldiers drafted into the British army
The poem contrasts the early optimism about noble war and the later disillusionment of British soldiers facing modern warfare
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: New chemical weapons appeared in WWI around 1915, and their use:
Illustrates how science was harnessed on total war to more effectively kill
Was not considered barbaric or unusual at the time
Was limited to the Germans, as Allie’s found has warfare uncivilized
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: Which of the following answers BEST explains the context for the secret speech?
Soviet confidence and aggression after succesful creation of nuclear weapons and early Cold War victories in the 1950s
Grassroots opposition to continued political repression by secret police forces
The death of Stalin and removal of the vestiges of Stalinism
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: The image displays which facet of Stalin’s Soviet Union?
The implementation of the first and second Five Year Plans
Failure of the Five Year Plan to meet all its production goals
The cereation of cult personality
How did hitler ultimately take power in January 1933
He was appointed by President Hindenburg
Hitler staged a violent takeover of power by the SA (Studmabteilung)
Hitler used Article 48 to appoint himself chancellor
The Enabling Act, passed by the German parliament, helped Hitler gain doctoral powers by allowing him to legislate without the consent sent of parliament. Why would parliament vote for a measure that removed their ability to exercise any political power
Because any members of parliament who would have voted against the Enabling Act had been placed under arrest
Members of parliament were bribed to vote for it with large sums of money
The Communists, who at this time were the largest party in Parliament, decided to vote for the measure since it was seen as the only way to solve the economic crisis in Germany
Stallion’s program of forcibly collectivizing Russian agriculture:
Resulted in government-made famine
Was very well received by the Russian peasantry
Encouraged the Russian peasant to greatly increase his productivity in an effort to better serve the state
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: Which of the following developments BEST parallels the relationship between the image and the speech in a previous period of history?
The Cult of Reason during the French Revolution
Baroque art during the Catholic Counter-Reformation
Neo-classic works during the Napoleonic Wars
The Bolsheviks Revolution success was because they promoted:
Victory at any cost
Increased industry
Agrarian reforms
After the Bolsheviks failed to win the majority vote, Lenin ordered the Red Army to disperse the:
Soviet
Duma
Constituent Assembly
Italy agreed to join the Triple Entente because it:
Was promised Austrian Territory
Felt betrayed by Austria-Hungary
Was attacked by Germany to the north
The economist John Maynard Keynes’s criticized of the Paris Peace conference and the Treaty of Versailles Because it:
Created new nation-states
Made no provision for economic restoration of Europe
Included a “war guilt” clause
After the war, the middle eastern territories of the Ottoman Empire were:
Left under Ottoman control
Allowed national self-determination
Made mandates of European powers
The New Economic Policy, or NEP, implemented by Vladimir Lenin 1921 was intended to revive the Soviet economy by:
Continuing the civil war policies of war communism
Nationalizing all industry, large and small
Creating large collective farms.
Providing for a temporary compromise with capitalistic economic policies
Unlike the Congress of Vienna, the Paris Peace Conference following WWI:
Countries who had allied with losing nations were also punished
Territory was not taken from the losing nation
The losing nation was nit allowed to participate in the peace conference
The general von Schlieffen Plan is what led to Germany’s attack on:
France.
Austria.
Russia.
Italy.
Russia lost much territory, people, and resources after Lenin ended the war through:
The treaty of Versailles
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk
His agreement to be returned to Russia in 1917
During World War I, the Great powers needed to create unprecedented amounts of bullets, guns, and machines in order to keep the war effort going. Which of the following was NOT one of the techniques used by European governments to meet wartime economic demands?
They relied on the free market
They increased the employment of women
They developed synthetic substitutes for needed commodities
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: The tone of the above statement best reflects which of the following developments in Europe between World War One and World War Two?
The promotion of charismatic leaders and the glorification of war
The exploitation of postwar bitterness and economic instability by groups and individuals
Propaganda that rejected democratic institutions to lure the disillusioned
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: Which of the following would best support Mussolini’s assertion above about democracy and Socialism?
Authoritarian rule in Spain from 1936 to the mid 1970s
The British government after the glorious revolution
The United States’ role in Europe during World War Two
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: Mussolini’s argument in the passage above most clearly supports which of the following idealogies?
Communism
Fascism
Anarchism
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